SAP #BOBJ #BI 4.1 Upgrade Webcast Series 1: Value Proposition and Client Tools

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SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade

Webinar Series

BI 4.1 Upgrade: Value Proposition

and Client Tools

Presenter: Henry Banks

SAP Customer Experience Group

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BI4.1 Value Proposition Henry Banks

July 2014

Customer

10%

75%

Use Analytics

Today

Need

Analytics

by 2020

Nucleus Research, Gartner, Fortune Magazine

Unlocking the value of “Hidden Data”

Ability to manage and

consume all data is getting

harder

Not utilizing all the

information out there

Not leveraging the power of

collective insight

Missing new insights

IT is not agile enough and

the business wants to get

involved

=

5 © 2014 SAP AG or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved.

Nucleus Research, Gartner, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Forrester

The Forrester Wave™: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012

Key Trends shaping the future of BI

33% 80%

of BI consumed on handhelds

in 2013

of information needs handled

by end users

$1

$10.66

Spent on BI Return

>10x ROI

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Top Reasons to upgrade to SAP BI 4.1

Enable Answers

on the Go

Deliver Governed Data

Discovery & BI to the

Entire Team

Get the most out of

your BI Solution

Analytics solutions from SAP

Agile

Visualization

Advanced

Analytics

Big Data

Mobile

Collaboration

Cloud

Enterprise

Business Intelligence

Value Drivers of SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1

Native

SAP

HANA support

Designed to

support

future

innovations

Mobile

Upgrade Ready

Reduced

TCO

DeskI

Compatibility

Native

SAP

BW support

Focus on

Quality


Native SAP HANA support

• Support of HANA by every BI Client of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Suite

• Platform Integration with Native HANA supported BI Clients as Design

Studio, Analysis Office and Lumira

• Combine SAP HANA data with any other data source using Multi Source

Universes

• No performance degradation


Mobile

• Embedded within installer & Central Management Console

• Support of ALL SAP BusinessObjects Client tools

• Integrated Explorer support including Exploration Views

• Support of SAP Lumira Cloud and SAP Lumira Server

• Support for every Web Application Server and OS as recorded in PAM for the

BI Platform

• Removal of legacy Third Party Communication Layer


Native SAP BW support

• SAP BW Business Intelligence Connection Service (BICS) connection

embedded in BI Platform

• No need for BW JAVA deployment to SAP BusinessObjects BI4.1 Clients to

SAP BW

• Improved performance for reporting against BW*

• Query Stripping and Auto Refresh by BI CLients

* Depending on BW Version


Reduced TCO

• Available as Cloud Deployment in public and private cloud options

• Ability to generate Multi Source Universes

• Leverage any investment made in SAP BW for reporting by BI4.1

• Backup without Down Time

• Embedded Monitoring Functionality including integration to SAP Solution Manager,

IBM Tivoli and JMX clients

• Embedded Promotion Management

• Improved Auditing Engine

• Enabled for parallel patching and on-going improvements for Near Zero Downtime

• Support of ALL SAP BI Clients in a single platform


Designed to support future innovations

• 64 Bits Server Architecture to support modern Hardware

• Building up for Near Zero Downtime

• Full support for Virtualization

• Platform Integration with Analysis Office, Design Studio, Lumira and Lumira Server

• Support for Big Data sources as Hadoop Hive and Amazon EMR

• HTML 5 Clients and Mobile Content

• Common (extendable) Chart Engine for BI Clients

• Universe Support for the Latest and New Databases


Focus on Quality

• BI4.1 is better in quality compared to XI3.1

• Complete new Quality Process to ensure quality driven development and

software delivery

• Ramp Up Target completion within 4 months

• Best Practices Solutions Embedded

Customer Feedback FedEx: "in the 15-yrs I’ve worked with BOBJ -- 4.1 is the best code

release ever”…


Upgrade Ready

• Upgrade Management Tool is a dedicated product to upgrade XIR2 and XI3x

content to BI4.1

• Improved upgrade performance

• Support for Incremental* and Full upgrades

• Available as Command Line or by GUI*

* Windows Only


Desktop Intelligence Compatibility

• Ability to upgrade Desktop Intelligence Documents into BI4.1 CMS

• Ability to manage and secure Desktop Intelligence Documents in BI4.1

Central Management Console

• Ability to connect Desktop Intelligence Client to BI4.1 CMS*

• Improved Report Conversion Tool for higher conversion success

* As of XI3.1 SP6 Fixpack 6.1

Customer Feedback Arun District Council: “DeskI compatibility is exactly what we needed. It

worked nicely”…


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Complete end-to-end analytics

solution

#1 leader in analytics

65,000+ analytics customers

7,000+ Partners with proven

track record of success

The SAP Difference

Choosing the right BI Client tool Henry Banks

July 2014


Securely distribute information across your organization

Answer related questions by interacting with pre-defined reports

Build printable reports for operational efficiency

Distribute Information

SAP Analytics Solutions One Suite for All Insight

Reporting Agile

Visualization

Discover areas to optimize your business

Adapt data to business needs

Tell your story with beautiful visualizations

Discover. Predict. Create.

Deliver engaging information to users where they need it

Track key performance indicators and summary data

Build custom experiences - users get what they need quickly

Build Engaging Experiences

Agile

Visualization

Enterprise BI

Dashboards and

Apps

Enterprise BI

Reporting


Dashboards

and Apps Reporting

SAP Analytics Solutions Tuned for Key Use Cases

Agile

Visualization

Where there is a significant complexity to the BI content

Standardized formats, sophisticated design, complex data mashups, or high levels of governance.

Separates the creation environment from the consumption environment.

Not a product, but a way of working with software

Business user, analyst, or executive answering their own questions

Mobile or web based self service

Combines the creation and consumption environment into a single seamless experience

Agile

Visualization

Self Service

Professionally Authored


Self Service


SAP Analytics Solutions For Specific Personas

Reporting Agile Visualization

Dashboards and

Apps Reporting

Decision Maker

An

aly

st

De

sig

ne

r


Self Service


SAP Analytics Solutions Holistic overview (datasource agnostic)

Reporting Agile Visualization

Dashboards and

Apps Reporting


Self Service

Lumira

Analysis Office

Design Studio

Dashboards

Analysis for OLAP

Explorer

Lumira Boards

Exploration Views Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports


SAP Crystal Reports for formatted reports

Access nearly any data source directly

Build reports that look exactly the way you

want through pixel-perfect positioning,

layout and templates

Powerful API to embed reports into

applications

Optimized for high-volume reporting and

publishing

Overview

Build pixel-perfect formatted reports for printing and operational reporting


SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence for self-service query and reporting

Market-leading self service reporting solution

for rapid report creation

Support for multi-source semantic layer to

bring together different sources of information

– without having to know the DB structure or

SQL

Content accessible from anywhere: Mobile,

Web, Desktop

Overview

Quickly build ad-hoc queries and reports without a knowledge of SQL or the underlying data structure


SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards for building custom dashboards on any data

Build rich, interactive dashboards and visualizations

Broad visualization library to support KPIs and

executive dashboards

Leverage enterprise BI infrastructure with support

for the semantic layer

Recommended for use on 3rd party data sources

Overview

Provides a rich set of visualizations and controls to build highly interactive dashboards on third-party data sources


SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio for building analytic applications on BW and HANA

Modern development environment and HTML5

runtime

Native BW and HANA support

Growing library of controls

Recommended for HANA and BW customers

Overview

Provides a development environment that contains a broad library of controls and visualizations to build analytic

applications on BW and HANA


SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for business users to quickly access information on their own

Provide business users with a simple experience to independently ask and answer business questions on the fly

Quickly and easily explore your data using search

Easily visualize your data

Geographic and Time awareness

Build simple, interactive views (Exploration views)

Mobile ready

Overview


SAP BusinessObjects Analysis for OLAP analysis

Recommended for OLAP analysis scenarios

(multi-dimensional analysis)

Quickly leverage your existing OLAP investments

with support for BW, HANA, Essbase, Analysis

Services, and other OLAP sources

High productivity for analysts through both Web

and Excel based interfaces

Premium alternative for BEx customers

Overview

Provide Business Analysts with the ability to analyze OLAP data in both Excel and over the Web


SAP Lumira to unleash business analyst creativity

Provides the freedom to understand your data, personalize it, and create beautiful content

Overview Download and install on your

desktop in less than 5 minutes

Insight from many data sources

Combine, manipulate and enrich

data to apply it to your business

scenarios

Self-service visualizations and

analytics to tell your story

Optimized for SAP HANA for real-

time on detailed data

Boards allow for dashboards to be

assembled from existing

visualizations


Agile Visualization Compared

Data acquisition and mashups from multiple data sources including HANA

Supports Universe semantic layer and SAP Business Suite

Data manipulation – cleansing and grouping.

Rich visualizations

Desktop deployment

Data acquisition from HANA and BW

Data mashups via BW Workspaces (require BW 7.3 on HANA)

Excel based visualizations

Rich hierarchical data functionality. Full access to all BW metadata.

Excel and Powerpoint Addin

Data acquisition from HANA, BW, MS Analysis Services, Oracle OLAP, Essbase

Rich hierarchical data functionality

Web based deployment

Simple, consistent UI

Enables broad based data access with little training requirements

Exploration views enables self-service dashboards

Web based and mobile solution

More Capability

Easier to Adopt

De

cis

ion

Ma

ke

r A

naly

st SAP Lumira

Analysis for Office

Analysis for OLAP

Explorer


Simplification and Integration Plans As Of Q1 2014

SAP Lumira

Explorer

Analysis for Office

Analysis for OLAP

SAP Lumira

SAP Lumira desktop

Lumira Server

Analysis Office

Design Studio

Design Studio

Web Intelligence Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports Crystal Reports

Dashboards

Incremental improvements

Incremental improvements

Analysis for OLAP Incremental improvements

Converge Dashboards with Design Studio per public SoD and

integrate with SAP Lumira

Add interoperability with Lumira

Add server to enable sharing

Remove Flash and add to SAP Lumira Server

Dashboards Incremental improvements

Key Points

Lumira transitions

from a desktop product

to an integrated product

family that is included in

the BI Suite license

Key Points

No products are

deprecated or end-of-

lifed.

All products continue to

be fully supported for

the life of the BI 4.x

platform.

Explorer

http://blogs.sap.com/analytics/2012/04/17/the-future-of-dashboards-strategy-and-direction/

Selecting the Right Client Based on Product Capabilities


Where does the data reside?

Reporting Agile Visualization Dashboards and Apps

SAP BW

SAP HANA

Relational

sources

OLAP

sources

Flat files

Web Intelligence Crystal Reports

Design Studio Dashboards

Lumira Explorer Analysis Office-

OLAP

1

Optimized and favoured

Supported

Unsupported

OLAP

Office

1. Supported with relational .unx against BW, BW on HANA and HANA optimized InfoProviders. Limited direct BW BICS connect


Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client Comparing Product Capabilities

Crystal Reports

for Enterprise Web Intelligence Dashboards Design Studio

Analysis for

Office

Analysis for

OLAP Lumira Explorer

Highly formatted reporting

Parameterized & Dynamic Layout

Self – Service

Hierarchical capabilities

Data Visualization

Product Interoperability

Guided Navigation

Mobile Reporting 1 1 2

Supported Not Supported 1. With Design Studio 2. With Explorer and Lumira Cloud


SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.x & OLAP Sources Hierarchical Reporting Capabilities

Crystal Reports

for Enterprise

Web Intelligence Dashboards

(BI4 SP05

connectivity)

Design

Studio

Analysis for

Office

Analysis for

OLAP

Explorer/Lumira/P

A

Support for hierarchical member selection

Support for hierarchical parameters Lum ok

Support for hierarchies in charts and crosstab Only Hierarchical

Scorecard *Lum ok

Support for “delegated measures”

Support for hierarchical report design

Switching between hierarchies on the fly

Level based member selection

Showing Leaves only / Lowest Level of the

hierarchy

“Expand to Level” as a configuration option

Skipping Levels of a hierarchy

Ranking data along hierarchies


Where is the content created?


Design Studio

Dashboards

Web Intelligence

Analysis OLAP

Explorer

Lumira

Analysis Office

Predictive Analysis

Lumira

Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Discover. Predict. Create. Build Engaging Experiences Distribute Information


Where is the content consumed?


Design Studio

Dashboards


Design Studio

Dashboards

Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Analysis OLAP

Explorer

Lumira

Analysis Office

Predictive Analysis

Lumira

Design Studio

Dashboards

Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Explorer

Lumira

Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Selecting the Right Client Based on Your Audience


Who creates the content?


Design Studio

Dashboards

Crystal Reports

Web Intelligence

Web Intelligence

Analysis Office/OLAP

Predictive Analysis

Explorer

Lumira

Designer

Analyst



Who consumes the content?


Design Studio1

Dashboards

Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Design Studio

Dashboards

Web Intelligence

Crystal Reports

Analysis Office/OLAP

Predictive Analysis2

Explorer

Lumira

Explorer

Lumira

1. Content consumed in Design Studio output, not the Design Studio IDE itself.

Analyst

Decision Maker


Selecting the Right SAP BusinessObjects BI Client

… based on your business requirements



Crystal

Reports for

Enterprise

Web

Intelligence Dashboards Design Studio

Analysis,

Edition for

Microsoft

Office

Analysis,

edition for

OLAP

Lumira Explorer

Usage of Hierarchies

Using BEx Query Structures

Microsoft Excel as client

Internet Browser as client

Creating calculations

Multiple Source in one report

Supported Not Supported



Crystal

Reports for

Enterprise

Web


Analysis for

Office

Analysis for

OLAP Lumira Explorer

Offline Capabilities

Mobile Reporting

Distribution via eMail

(Broadcasting)

Edit the report

Change the “view” of the data

What-if scenarios

Data enrichment




Crystal

Reports for

Enterprise

Web


Analysis,

Edition for

Microsoft

Office

Analysis,

edition for

OLAP

Lumira Explorer

Highly Aggregated information

Strong data visualization

Drill Down / Navigate to detailed

information

Mobile Reporting

Search & Exploration



Your BI Strategy should start with the business requirements, not with the DWH.

Key Learnings

Start by defining your requirements and your desired outcome.

Focus on the business pain points by area. One use-case after the other – not all at once

Understand your audience. Let them describe their workflow. Listen !

Remember – Your BI Strategy starts with the business requirements.. Not with the DWH


Key Links

sap.com/upgradebi

sap.com/learnbi

sap.com/bivirtualization

sap.com/bisizing

service.sap.com/roadmap

sapbusinessobjectsbi.com

Getting started with SAP BI

How to Select the Right BI Tool for Your Environment

SAP’s Release Strategy for Major Releases of SAP BusinessObjects BI

http://sap.com/upgradebi

http://sap.com/LearnBI

http://sap.com/LearnBI

http://sap.com/bivirtualization

http://sap.com/bivirtualization

http://sap.com/bisizing

http://sap.com/bisizing

http://service.sap.com/roadmap

http://sapbusinessobjectsbi.com





http://blogs.sap.com/analytics/2011/07/27/demystifying-standard-sap-support-for-major-releases-of-sap-businessobjects-bi/




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